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The same is true for us, as God’s obedient children. Because we’re “in Christ,” everything our Father owns is ours. And that’s saying a lot, because He owns it all. Talk about a real estate magnate! God owns the entire earth and everything in it. He owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10). He owns the silver and the gold (Haggai 2:8) and all the rest of the wealth that’s here. And He has made it all available to us, as His sons and daughters. It wasn’t put here for the devil and his crew. God created the wealth of this planet for His family and He wants us to have it in abundance. He wants you, as His child, to have “richly all things to enjoy” (1 Timothy 6:17). God wants you to have so much money that you can do things like go to a Believers’ Convention, for instance, anytime you please. He doesn’t want you to have to stay home because you can’t pay for the gas to get there. He wants you to be able to buy airplane tickets for your whole family and stay in a nice hotel. Better yet, He wants you to be so prosperous you can pay for another family or two to go with you! God Isn’t Broke “Well,” you might say, “that sounds like a pretty expensive lifestyle.” That’s OK, God can afford it. He’s not anywhere near broke. He can come up with any amount of money with no problem. His only problem has been getting His people to believe Him for it, to act like He meant it when He said in His Word: ● “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22). ● “For…our Lord Jesus Christ…though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). ● “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” (Proverbs 13:22). ● “To the sinner [God] giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God” (Ecclesiastes 2:26). ● “And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]” (2 Corinthians 9:8, "AMPC"). All too often, instead of simply believing those verses with our hearts, we, as God’s people, try to figure them out with our heads. We resort to limited human reasoning, look at our natural circumstances—our job, our bank account, the economy, or whatever—and think, How could I ever be rich? How could I possibly get the money to pay off my house or pay cash for a new car? How could I ever afford to finance someone’s ministry? That kind of thinking undermines our faith because it’s all about me…me…me. It assumes we’re our own source and that it’s up to us to bring in the money. But that’s not the case. God is our Source! All we have to do is put our faith in Him, put our lives and resources in His hands, and let Him do for us what He did in Matthew 14 for the little boy who gave Jesus his lunch. Have you ever read about that? God multiplied that little boy’s two-piece fish dinner so unreasonably that it not only fed thousands of people, there were 12 baskets full of leftovers for the little boy to take home. Would God really do that kind of thing for us, as believers, today? Certainly He would! He’s our heavenly Father. He wants to prosper us beyond what, in the natural, is even possible. He’s just waiting for us to release our faith and give Him the opportunity. * * * * * * * * * * * * * “God made you wealthy beyond your wildest dream before sin ever happened. Then He ordained Jesus, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, to keep you from losing it.” —Kenneth Copeland * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * article continues on p. 27 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Points to Get You There: 1) When it comes to financial abundance, God thinks BIG! Isa. 55:9 2) Even under the Old Covenant God blessed His people with supernatural abundance. Deut. 8:18 3) Under the New Covenant, God can do even more to prosper us than He did for the Israelites. 2 Cor. 8:9 4) God has no problem getting money to us, His only problem is getting us to believe Him for it. Mark 9:23 5) Don’t let your own human reasoning limit your believing, base your faith on the limitless power of God. Eph. 3:20 26 : BVOV

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